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Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Thursday, November 07, 2024

BLACK HEALTH MATTERS Brings Wellness Expo to Charlotte

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On  Saturday, November 16, 2024 ,  Black Health Matters  (BHM) , a leading health and wellness organization for African Americans, will h...
Tuesday, April 02, 2024

123 Leading Organizations Urge President Biden: Act Now to Eliminate Menthol Cigarettes

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123 leading civil rights, public health, medical, faith, youth-serving and other organizations placed a  full-page ad  in The Washington P...
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Saturday, May 27, 2023

Lack of Men of Color Graduating From the Health Professions Declared a Crisis by Association CEOs

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The Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions (FASHP) has declared the low number of historically underrepresente...
Monday, January 24, 2022

Aspiring bodybuilder wins medal in 1st bodybuilding competition after 20 weeks of chemo

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Erica Langley, an aspiring bodybuilder who discovered she had cancer in 2018 is inspiring others after winning a medal in her first compet...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Video: VP-Elect Kamala Harris gets Covid-19 Vaccine

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Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, received their first doses of Moderna's coronavirus vaccine on Tuesda...
Saturday, September 26, 2020

Alabama Nurses Association elects 1st African American president

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The Alabama Nurses Association elected its first African American president in its 107 year history. The organization named Dr. Lindsey ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

The African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council sues FDA for inaction on banning menthol cigarettes

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Today, The African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council (AATCLC) and Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) held a virtual press confe...
Sunday, April 07, 2019

New PSA with Harry Lennix on how prostate cancer disproportionately affecting African American men

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Actor Harry Lennix    who currently co-stars on the NBC drama "The Blacklist," is the face of PCF's 2019 "Know t...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

Kamala Harris on mortality rates of black mothers: 'We can solve' this

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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said society needs to do more to curb the increasing rates of mortality among black mothers. Harris, ...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

National Institutes of Health launches initiative to accelerate therapies to cure sickle cell disease

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced the launch of a new initiative to help speed the development of a cure for...
Saturday, June 23, 2018

Tuskegee University develops new breast cancer test

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A team led by Tuskegee University researchers have developed a new way to detect the most aggressive and fatal form of breast cancer. ...
Sunday, October 15, 2017

North Carolina Central University Awarded $16.3 Million by National Institute of Health

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North Carolina Central University (NCCU) has been awarded $16.3 million by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparit...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration Approves Endari, A New Treatment for Sickle Cell Disease

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Endari has shown to decrease the number of sickle cell crises and hospitalizations in patients with sickle cell disease. SCD is a rare...